Bacon and blue cheese is a fantastic flavor combination! Try this bacon blue cheese bread for a delicious appetizer or as an accompaniment to soup or pasta.
There’s been a summer cold being passed around these parts and last week I came down with it. This meant that there was only one possible option in the kitchen: a good, hot soup.
This also meant that there was only one possible option for what to go with it: a good, hot, crusty, cheesy bread.
Bacon Blue Cheese Bread, of course.
I am such a sucker for the bacon and blue cheese flavor combination. And it goes so well with so many things: blue cheese stuffed pork loin wrapped in bacon, a wedge salad, or blue cheese burger totchos.
It just so happens to make a fantastic bacon blue cheese bread, too.
Normally when I make a pull-apart bread I’ll use a round loaf, if only because it’s easier for me to find a loaf of bread with a good, hard crust in that shape. But when I find one that’s oblong with a harder crust, I’ll take it. I find that it’s easier to slice and stuff.
I also love to do this with individual hard rolls. It makes it much easier to serve to guests so you don’t have everyone eating from the same big loaf. Of course, you can always just slice it into individual pieces.
To make stuffing this bread really easy I like to slice my bacon into thirds before cooking. Don’t bother cooking it in batches of one layer, just toss it all in your pan if there’s not room and stir it up as more fat renders.
You wouldn’t want to do that with whole slices but smaller pieces work (or if I’m making a dish where I need crumbled bacon I’ll slice the bacon into small pieces first, so much easier)! Thirds work best here because they’re easiest to slide into the buttery, blue cheesy crevices.
I made my bacon blue cheese bread to go with rustic potato soup and oh, my, was it fantastic!! It would go perfectly with tomato soup, too. In any case, it made me *almost* cured. Either that or all that extra rest I forced myself into (but I’m pretty sure it was the bread!

Bacon Blue Cheese Bread
Bacon and blue cheese is a fantastic flavor combination! Try this bacon blue cheese bread for a delicious appetizer or as an accompaniment to soup or pasta.
Ingredients
- 1 large round or oval-shaped loaf of French bread (or Italian, Sourdough, etc., just make sure it’s got a hard-ish crust)
- 6 slices bacon (cut into thirds and cooked until crisp)
- 1/2 cup butter
- 4 ounces crumbled blue cheese
- 1/4 tsp kosher salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- 1 cup shredded cheddar and jack cheese (combo)
- chopped parsley (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375F. Spray a sheet of foil with cooking spray and set loaf on top.
- Slice ½-inch grid lines into the bread, crosswise in both directions, stopping just before the bottom of the bread (don’t cut all the way through).
- Melt the butter just until there are a few butter chunks left that are not melted, then remove from heat and stir to finish melting entirely (this will prevent the butter from being too hot and making the blue cheese melt).
- Mix together the melted butter, blue cheese, salt and pepper.
- Gently spoon the butter mixture in all of the crevices, making sure it gets in every part of the loaf. Wrap the loaf up in the foil and place directly on the oven rack and bake for 15 minutes.
- Remove from oven, open the foil and place cooked bacon slices into crevices. Sprinkle the shredded cheese on top of the bread. Leaving the foil open, return bread to oven and bake until the cheese is melted and lightly browned.
- Garnish with chopped parsley, if desired. Serve immediately.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 8 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 424Total Fat: 26gSaturated Fat: 15gTrans Fat: 1gUnsaturated Fat: 9gCholesterol: 67mgSodium: 941mgCarbohydrates: 32gNet Carbohydrates: 31gFiber: 1gSugar: 3gProtein: 16g
This data was provided and calculated by Nutritionix.
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Doesn't that that look yummy - such a wonderful flavor combination! Pinned!
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Thanks so much, Donalyn!
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I'm such a sucker for a tasty bread dish like this! Blue cheese and bacon work so well together, don't they? Love this -- thanks.
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They most certainly do, John! Thanks :)
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